Charlotte Dorn is an artist and researcher living in Brussels and currently doing an artistic PhD at LUCA School of Arts and KU Leuven. She absolved her Master in Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti die Napoli and her Bachelor in the Arts at the Académie des Beaux-Arts Nantes Métropole and the Universidad de Sevilla, Campus Bellas Artes. Her work is on display in exhibitions such as the Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels or residencies like the International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium in Daugavpils, Latvia. Dorn’s artwork mainly consists of printmaking. Through drawing and life observation, she approaches insect worlds, with a current focus on firebugs. Key interests in her research are the empathetic engagement through images and through the creative process, as well as the representation of insects as actants and processes.

Born in 1996 

EDUCATION:

2021 (-2025) Artistic PhD at KU Leuven and LUCA Arts, Brussels
2021 Erasmus + Internship at the BAS CS Gallery in Berlin, Germany
2020 MFA with distinction (110/110 con lode) Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy

2017 BFA with distinction (15/20) École des Beaux-Arts Nantes Métropole ESBANM, Nantes, France
2015 Erasmus stay at the Universidad de Sevilla – Campus Bellas Artes, Sevilla, Spain

2014 High School Diploma at the European School EEB2, Brussels, Belgium

2021-2024 RHoK Academie Beeldende & Audiovisuelle Kunsten, Graphic Atelier, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Guest student at the Kunsthochschule Mainz in Methodology of art history, Mainz, Germany
2020-2021 P.M.K. Artist and Business Cooperation Program, Berlin, Germany

EXHIBITIONS (Selection):

2025/08.05.-15.06 KLIMA XL, Teil 2, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken
2025/24.02.-26.04. More-than-human mappings – Livingmaps Network Conference, Stewart House, Senate House, London
2024/10-2025/02 Hosting, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels
2024/02 Ukranian Print Exchange, Gallery83, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023/09-10 Hoheslied der Liebe, Stephanuskirche, Berlin, Germany
2023/07 RHoK Expo, RHoK Academy, Brussels, Belgium
2023/06-08 Nature Art Cube Biennale, Geumgang Nature Art Centre, Korea
2022/12 Doubting Images, De Carré, Gent, Belgium

2022/08 Zehdenick, Reflexionen über unsere Stadt in der Kunst, Klosterscheune Zehdenick, Germany
2022/02 RHoK’s Eye – Impression/Expression, Erasmus House, Brussels, Belgium
2022/05 Der Herr ist mein Hirte, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, Germany

2021/07 Upgrade Madonna, Stephanuskirche, Berlin, Germany
2021/05 11:11, Vinogradov Galerie, Berlin, Germany, duo
2021/03 Von Frauen geschaffen, Frauen gewidmet, Vinogradov Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020/11 Pocken Face, BAS Gallery, Berlin, Germany, solo

2019/11 Arte Che Cura, PAN, Naples, Italy

2018/11 Arte e Amore, Palazzo Venezia, Naples, Italy

2016/10 Apolo Photo Colony, Lecce, Italy

2016/03 Escultura, Centro de Iniciativas Culturales, Sevilla, Spain

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (Selection):

2022 Collection of the Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia, Donated
2020 Short Film Collection, Kommunalkino Bremen e.V., Bremen, Germany. Donated

2018 Private Collection of the Apollonia Casino, Gevgelja, Macedonia. Donated

2017 Collection of the Contemporary Art Space, Batumi, Georgia. Donated 
2016 Public Collection of the Muzeu, Suhareka, Kosovo. Donated 

RESIDENCIES (Selection): 

2024 Art Print Residence, Arenys de Munt, Spain
2024 Nomad City Artist in Residence, Hasselt, Belgium
2023 Muhu Print 2023, Muhu, Estonia
2022 Tirana Art Colony 2022, Tirana, Albania
2022 10th International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium, Daugavpils, Latvia
2021 Women’s Art Forum, Art residence, Hurghada, Egypt
2021 International Art Colony Festari, Art residence, Suhareka, Kosovo
2018 International Plein Air Gevgelja, Art residence, Gevgelja, Macedonia

2017 International Plein Air Batumi, Art residence, Batumi, Georgia

2016 Biennale Internazionale di Santa Severina, Art residence, Santa Severina, Italy 

MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS:


Since 2022 Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods (MEAM) Network
Since 2021 Saarländisches Künstlerhaus

ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS

  • Dorn, C. (2025). Attending to firebugs. Artistic investigations for respectful correspondences. In MEAM Volume. Cambridgeshire: White-House Press
  • Co-author in Jacobs, A., Anthoni, E., Busseniers, E., Claes, S., Huybrechts, L., van Leemput, M., Vrancken, K., Carriera, L., Colson, N., Dorn, C., Hostetler, A., Janssens, A., Kabendela, G., Kose, A., Luo, D., Majogoro, M., Sanchez, L. R. J., Stepanovic, J., Swillen, A., … Hannes, K. (2025). Co-Designing Multispecies Speculations Through Biofuturing. Qualitative Inquiry, 31(2), 122-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241231919

CONFERENCES

  • 2025/08.-09.05. Symbioses! Symposium on the interactions between art and science, Roundtable, ISELP , Brussels
  • 2024/21.03. Desire-based research. What do artists want in research and where does that lead us? What do you long for and where do we meet?, Kunsthal Gent, Gent [PhD-Feedback session]
  • 2023/15.12. Agents of Concern: Images and Empathy. Doctoral Symposium, PXL-MAD, School of Arts & Hasselt University. [performance lecture]
  • 2023/25.10.2023 Studying Art – Why and what to do with it?, European School Brussels III, Brussels [lecture]
  • 2023/03.-04.07. MEAM Conference. Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods, Liège University [presentation]
  • 2022/06.12.2022 Doubting Images. Doctoral Seminar, LUCA School of Arts, Campus Ghent [presentation]
  • 2022/30.-31.05.2022 Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods Workshop, Liège University, Uppsala Universiteit and Radbout Universiteit. [online presentation]

WORKSHOPS

  • 2025/18.04-28.06. Archéologie du Futur, Workshop in parallel with the exhibition Réminiscences, ISELP, Brussels
  • 2025/16.-17.01. Inter-Actions Research retreat 2025, TU Eindhoven [Workshop on drawing and research presentation]
  • 2024/10.10. Drawing as a way of knowing, Ecotron, Hasselt [Drawing workshop for the master program Shifting Grounds]
  • 2021/ 11.08. Kinderkakadu Art workshop for children in Saarbrücken
  • 2021/ 08.06. Kinderatelier Art workshop for children in Saarbrücken
  • 2021/ 01.07.-15.08. Workshops for adults and children in the Moderne Galerie Saarbrücken